The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Visual Arts course encourages students to challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries. It is a thought-provoking course in which students develop analytical skills in problem-solving and divergent thinking, while working towards technical proficiency and confidence as art-makers.
In addition to exploring and comparing Visual Arts from different perspectives and in different contexts, students are expected to engage in, experiment with and critically reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media.
The course is designed for students who want to go on to study Visual Arts in higher education as well as for those who are seeking lifelong enrichment through Visual Arts.
The Visual Arts course at Queensland Academies Creative Industries is extended and enhanced by students’ participation in:
- Lectures, talks and workshops by teaching staff and local and international artists
- Learning journeys to galleries and art libraries
- Exhibiting as artists in regional and state exhibitions.
Unit 1 - Inquirers
| In this unit, students will revisit the formal elements of art. This will be done through a series of drawing tasks that record and organise knowledge about Visual Arts in their sketchbook. Students will examine how artists can embody the attributes of an IB Learner and communicate these key principles through their artistic practice. By examining their motivations and concepts, students are encouraged to Think Globally, exploring a variety of cultural, historical and contemporary contexts for artmaking.
| Experimental and Research Folio
One resolved work
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Unit 2 - Portraiture
| In this project, students aim to create a portrait for the Brisbane Portrait Next Gen prize, which encourages young artists to think about portraiture in a modern sense. Traditionally, a portrait is a realistic portrayal of a head and face. But contemporary forms of expression have already stretched those boundaries. The subject/ sitter students choose to represent must have a connection with Brisbane and this must be outlined in your final artist statement.
| Experimental and Research Folio
One resolved work
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Unit 3 - Sense of Place and Memory
| In this unit, students consider cultural places, physical places and emotional places as a stimulus for art making. Students may decide to recreate a real or imagined place. Using cardboard construction techniques, students communicate the conceptual values in their work, e.g. transience, relocation, belonging and not belonging, enclosing, comfort or containing. Students extend on their artwork through a digital or 2D response.
| Experimental and Research Folio
One resolved work
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Visual Art Higher Level (HL) - Year 11 and 12
The IB Diploma Programme Visual Arts Higher Level course encourages Year 11 and 12 students to challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries. It is a thought-provoking course in which students develop analytical skills in problem solving and divergent thinking, while working towards technical proficiency and confidence as art-makers.
In addition to exploring and comparing visual arts from different perspectives and in different contexts, students are expected to engage in, experiment with and critically reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media.
Visual Art Connections
| Students examine and compare the work of artists from different cultural contexts. Students consider the contexts influencing their own work and the work of others.
| Students look at different techniques for making art. Students investigate and compare how and why different techniques have evolved and the processes involved.
| Students explore ways of communicating through visual and written means. Students make artistic choices about how to most effectively communicate knowledge and understanding.
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Art-making Inquiry
| Students make art through a process of investigation, thinking critically and experimenting with techniques. Students apply identified techniques to their own developing work.
| Students experiment with diverse media and explore techniques for making art. Students develop concepts through processes that are informed by skills, techniques and media.
| Students produce a body of artwork through a process of reflection and evaluation, showing a synthesis of skill, media and concept.
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Curatorial Practice
| Students develop an informed response to experiences, work and exhibitions they have seen. Students begin to formulate personal intentions for creating and displaying their own artworks.
| Students evaluate how their ongoing work communicates meaning and purpose. Students consider the nature of “exhibition” and think about the process of selection and the potential impact of their work on different audiences.
| Students select and present resolved works for exhibition. Students explain the ways in which the works are connected. Students discuss how artistic judgments impact the overall presentation.
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IB Diploma Assessment (HL)
Task 1 - Art Making Inquiries Portfolio
| 30%
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Task 2 - Artist Project
| 30% |
Task 3 - Selected Resolved Artworks
| 40% |